insufficient

Speech parts

1. insufficient - Adjective

2. insufficient - Determiner

Meaning

Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need, use, or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in quantity, and defective in quality.

Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill; incompetent; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient to discharge the duties of an office.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

inadequate deficient scanty short limited thin slight scarce wanting sparse incompetent scant meager meagre paltry
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Antonyms

sufficient muslim catholic Islamic intercontinental Reich
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Phrases with the word

insufficient physical activity insufficient in number insufficient in quantity insufficient understanding insufficient nourishment insufficient attention

Examples

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. George Santayana

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler (novelist)

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. Learned Hand

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are cheques drawn on insufficient funds. René Daumal

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain? Lois McMaster Bujold

The alcohol that is insufficient for a whole town ought not to intoxicate one man. Nigerian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

insufficience insufficiency insufficiency of the adrenals insufficient amount insufficient amount of an active ingredient insufficient attention